Festival Sounds
Bilal and Tilly
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Lighthearted music festival podcast from Bilal and Tilly. We love Glastonbury, we chat about loads of others too such as Green Man, Isle of Wight, Reading and Leeds, and End of the Road. We interview artists about songwriting and causes that are important to them. We chat to festival founders and people who bring festivals together.
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S2E5 UK festival line up chat
Tilly and Bilal dust off the mic and get back to some festival line up chat, including Isle of Wight, Reading and Leeds, All Points East. We are not talking about Kanye - we recorded before the news.
S3E3 Glastonbury Festival 2025 Recap
Finally we release our Glastonbury 2025 recap.Please follow us if you want to stay in touch with our episodes over the winter. Link to Primary School Bangers tourRandom act chatting about lions -…
S2E4 Joshua Idehen on his journey to music festivals
Please hit the follow button on Apple Podcast for a bonus episode discussing the songwriting process for "Mum Does The Washing" that will be release later this week.Joshua Idahoan was a breakthrough…
S3E2 Echo 17 founders on how they built a festival
Echo 17 Festival was created by the team at How to Build a Festival Podcast.The festival is this weekend (20 September 2025).Cat, Rachel and Ross join Tilly to discuss what's on, how they created it…
S3E1 Fiona-Lee on Glastonbury and writing the song Mother
Tilly and Bilal sit down with singer-songwriter Fiona-Lee to discuss their debut at Glastonbury Festival, where they opened on the BBC Introducing stage on the Thursday. Find Fiona-Lee on Instagram…
S2E38 Glastonbury Festival Coachpool 2025
An episode for the journey into the festival, maybe for the last thirty minutes before you reach the site. In this episode Bilal and Tilly record on the go, using their new mobile microphones and…
S2E37 Nina Arya and her forthcoming set at Glastonbury 2025
The incredibly talented Nina Arya is playing BBC Introducing at Glastonbury Festival at 15:30 Sunday She chat to us about how she found out that this is playing Glastonbury and her songwriting…
S2E36 Glastonbury 2025 secret set rumours and cool smaller stages
We are joined by Dominic who previously recorded with us on going to Glastonbury solo. In this episode we chat about rumours for big name secret sets at Woodsies and the Park as well as our…
S2E35 Pulp at Glastonbury 2025? And artists away from the main stages
No Tilly this week, just Bilal. In our 50th episode we go back to the start with our very first guest, Grahame. We chat about lesser known artists away from the big stages and maybe we now know who…
S2E34 GlastoCast's Jessi and the best Glastonbury campsites
Please give us a follow on Apple or Spotify This week Jessi joins us to discuss which are the best campsites at Glastonbury and a little bit about volunteering at Oxfam.
S2E33 Travel, Lunch and Lockups, Wednesday arrival at Glastonbury Festival
Please share this episode with a friend if you enjoyed itThis week we are joined by host of "This Album..." with William Hann to discuss arrival at Glastonbury Festival and what to expect on a…
S2E32 Packing for Glastonbury
Please share this episode with a friend if you think they will enjoy itThis week we are joined by award winning broadcaster, Kavita KukarWe chat about our packing priorities for Glastonbury - this is…
S2E31 Roy Gurvitz, part 3. How Lost Vagueness saved Glastonbury Festival
Please share this episode with a friend if you enjoy the show.We are joined by Roy Gurvitz, creator of Lost Vagueness, the iconic corner of Glastonbury Festival that was credited with saving the…
S2E30 Roy Gurvitz, creator of Lost Vagueness. Part two, early days of Glastonbury
Please share this episode with a friend if you enjoy the show.We are joined by Roy Gurvitz, creator of Lost Vagueness, the iconic corner of Glastonbury Festival that was credited with saving the…
S2E29 Roy Gurvitz, creator of Lost Vagueness. Part one, early festival life
Please share this episode with a friend if you enjoy the show.We are joined by Roy Gurvitz, creator of Lost Vagueness, the iconic corner of Glastonbury Festival that was credited with saving the…
S2E28 Re-release: SecretGlasto, sharing secret sets at Glastonbury
Today Bilal and Tilly interview @secretglasto and, even now, we do not know his real identity. SecretGlasto is the twitter/X/BlueSky handle with tens of thousands of followers who have for years…
S2E27 Primary School Bangers Part 2
Please share the episode with a mate if you enjoy itWe are joined this week by James aka Primary School Bangers, who shares his journey from live lockdown TikTok's to performing on stage at festivals…
S2E26 Primary School Bangers Part 1
Please share the episode with a mate if you enjoy itWe are joined this week by James aka Primary School Bangers, who shares his journey from live lockdown TikTok's to performing on stage at festivals…
S2E25 Timothee Chalamet at Glastonbury and are Wolf Alice good live?
Please follow us if you like the show. We are also on TikTok and Instagram.Bilal and Tilly, no guest, Glastonbury poster drop chat, our listeners give their thoughts on Wolf Alice and is there a…
S2E24 Wedding proposals at Glastonbury
Please give us a five start rating in your podcast app if you enjoy the episode.We are joined by Katie who proposed to her partner at Glastonbury 2024. We chat a little bit about Woodisies and…
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Festival Sounds has published 58 episodes since June 2023, covering topics in Music, Music Commentary.
Festival Sounds is currently sporadic with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 28m.
